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During your time on station you may find yourself face to face (or face to mirror) with the not quite human. Be they aliens, mutated humans, or self aware constructs you're expected to try and coexist on this deathtrap<br>
During your time on station you may find yourself face to face (or face to mirror) with the not quite human. Be they aliens, mutated humans, or self aware constructs you're expected to try and coexist on this deathtrap<br>
Learning their quirks can be key to knowing how to keep them amicable in times of peace, and easy to put down in times of strife.
Learning their quirks can be key to knowing how to keep them amicable in times of peace, and easy to put down in times of strife.
 
=Roundstart Races=
=Common Races=
On Beestation, these are the races allowed to be chosen at round start. Because they are freely available, you should expect to deal with them nearly every round.
On Beestation, these are the races allowed to be chosen at round start. Because they are freely available, you should expect to deal with them nearly every round.
==={{anchor|Humans}}[[Humans]]===
==={{anchor|Humans}}[[Humans]]===
[[File:humans.png]]
[[File:humans.png]]


On the station humans enjoy a degree of superiority over other races, everyone you meet in a position of power will generally be a human.<br>
On the station humans enjoy a degree of superiority over other races, everyone you meet in a position of power will generally be a human.<br>
By default, the [[AI]] will apply the protections of its laws ONLY to humans, though they may extend that protection to other races out of preference provided doing so doesn't harm humans.<br>
Formerly, the [[AI]] would apply the protections of its laws ONLY to humans, nowadays however the AI's law protect "Crew" instead of humans.  
Should a conflict arise between a human and another race, expect the AI to take the human's side.


'''Gameplay'''
'''Gameplay'''
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'''Diet'''
'''Diet'''
* Likes: Fried food and junkfood, often combined into a heavenly form known as fast food.
*Likes: Fried food and junkfood, often combined into a heavenly form known as fast food.
* Dislikes: Raw food.
*Dislikes: Raw food.
 
'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* AI Protection under the default Asimov lawset.
*Strength in numbers.
* Strength in numbers.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* None at all.
*None at all.
 
'''Where to find them:'''
* Everywhere.
 
==={{anchor|Lizardperson}}[[Lizardperson|Lizardpeople]]===
==={{anchor|Lizardperson}}[[Lizardperson|Lizardpeople]]===
[[File:lizardpeople.png]]
[[File:lizardpeople.png]]


Second class citizens, lizards are generally relegated to lower level work.<br>  
Second class citizens, lizards are generally relegated to lower level work.<br>
Within a department a lizard staff member may enjoy anywhere from almost equal standing to obvious racism and disrespect, depending on their coworkers. They enjoy no advantages beyond their striking appearance.<br>
Within a department a lizard staff member may enjoy anywhere from almost equal standing to obvious racism and disrespect, depending on their coworkers. They enjoy no advantages beyond their striking appearance.<br>
Humans hate them and rightfully so, as they have been running a shadow society on their planet for two millennia. They masqueraded as the human leaders and ruled the human society until the year 2214, when they were exposed.<br>
Their appearance and naming conventions are loosely derived from the Argonians, of Skyrim.
Their appearance and naming conventions are loosely derived from the Argonians, of Skyrim.


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'''Diet'''
'''Diet'''
* Likes: Meat and disgusting things like small creatures that run around on four legs famous for disease
*Likes: Meat and disgusting things like small creatures that run around on four legs famous for disease
* Dislikes: Grain and dairy. What kind of creature would hate pizza or cake?!
*Dislikes: Grain and dairy, what kind of creature would hate pizza or cake?!
 
'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Memorable appearance.
*Memorable appearance.
* Solidarity with lizards staffmates.
*Solidarity with lizards staffmates.
* Lizardpeople take one third less heat damage.
*Lizardpeople take one third less heat damage.
* Lizard tails and hides can be used to craft sought after items like lizard wine, the Liz O' Nine Tails and lizard cloche hats.
*Lizard tails and hides can be used to craft sought after items like lizard wine, the Liz O' Nine Tails and lizard cloche hats.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Likely target of racism.
*Likely target of racism.
* Noticeable lisssp.
* Noticeable lisssp.
* 50% more cold damage.
* 50% more cold damage.
* Non-human to the AI.
*''Your'' lizard tail and hide can be used to craft sought-after items.
* ''Your'' lizard tail and hide can be used to craft sought-after items.
 
'''Where to find them:'''
* <s>Everywhere but command department.</s> Recent changes in NanoTrasen employment policies have allowed All races, human or not, to be any job they wish to take. Rejoice, non-humans!
 
==={{anchor|Felinids}}[[Felinids]]===
[[File:Catpeople.png]]
 
Effectively human if not for their ears and tail.
 
Nanotrasen executives agree that Felinids are not befitting of head roles for the same reason certain individuals are drawn to this species.
 
'''Diet'''
* The same as normal humans.
* Dislikes: Furballs.
 
'''Gameplay'''
 
At the start of the shift, put on clothes that look like they're from one of those Chinese cartoons you're always watching. <s>Have quality interactions with the crew</s> behave like a poorly-written female character created by a sweaty dude who's never actually spoken to a woman except for his mother (and a fast food cashier that one time.) NYAAA at the crew. Become an entertaining electrical conductor for silicons. <br> Metafriend every other catperson, every single round. Get lynched in the hallways by a mob while [[the authorities]] point and laugh from a distance. When in danger, [[Rules#Main Rules - read these if nothing else|get saved by backup suspiciously fast.]] Ahelp every transgression people do to you.
 
'''Benefits'''
* Metagangs.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
* Hit harder by flashbangs.
* Non-human to the AI.
* Distracted by laser pointers.
* Felinids aren't allowed to have tattoos because it shames famiry.
* Are below beast races because they abandoned their humanity, as opposed to never having it in the first place.
 
'''Where to find them:'''
* <s>In the dungeon.</s> <s>Everywhere but command department.</s> Recent changes in NanoTrasen employment policies have allowed All races, human or not, to be any job they wish to take. Rejoice, non-humans!
 
==={{anchor|Plasmaman}}[[Plasmaman]]===
==={{anchor|Plasmaman}}[[Plasmaman]]===
[[File:Plasmaman.png|120px]]
[[File:Plasmaman.png|120px]]
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'''Diet'''
'''Diet'''
* Likes: Vegetables.
* Likes: Vegetables.
* Dislikes: Fruit, only the flesh is weak to scurvy.
*Dislikes: Fruit, only the flesh is weak to scurvy.
 
'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* They stand out.
*Bang-proof and space-proof helmet with welding screen.
* Can use their bodies drawback of setting on fire offensively to scare off attackers.
*Immune to cold, (most) viruses, and radiation.
* Flash-proof, welding-safe helmet.
*Can't bleed.
* Immune to cold, viruses, and radiation.
*Does not need to eat.
* Can't bleed.
*Internals last very long and belt tanks at a standard pressure of 1013kPa last about 1.5 hours.
* Does not need to eat.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* They stand out, badly.
*They rely on a constant source of Plasma air to survive.
* Likely target of racism.
*If exposed to Oxygen their body will catch on fire (unless in stasis).
* They rely on a constant source of Plasma air to survive.
*150% damage from brute, heat and fire.
* If exposed to Oxygen their body will catch on fire.
*Takes longer for body temperature to stabilize.
* 150% damage from brute, heat and fire.
*They are stuck inside an environment suit. [Replaceable by Hardsuit, EVA spacesuit or ghetto envirosuit you can craft]
* They are stuck inside an environment suit. [Replaceable by Hardsuit or EVA spacesuit]
*Have to take off helmet and eat a few bites very quickly then extinguish in order to eat something.
* Can't drink or eat through helmet, so dependent on injections and patches.
*No easy ability to hide their identity.
* No easy ability to hide their identity.
*Can be cloned, but incompetent medical staff will always fuck it up.
* An Asimov AI and its [[Cyborg|minions]] are almost always free to maim or kill you if you are seen harming a human.
*Cannot be defibrillated, as they lack a heart.
* Can be cloned, but incompetent medical staff will always fuck it up.
* Cannot be defibrillated.
 
'''Where to find them:'''
* <s>Everywhere but command department.</s> Recent changes in NanoTrasen employment policies have allowed All races, human or not, to be any job they wish to take. Rejoice, non-humans!
 
==={{anchor|Mothpeople}}[[Mothpeople]]===
==={{anchor|Mothpeople}}[[Mothpeople]]===
[[File:Moths.gif|90px]]
[[File:Moths.gif|90px]]
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'''Diet'''
'''Diet'''
* Likes: Vegetables & Dairy. Insulated gloves.
*Likes: Vegetables, Dairy & Clothes.
* Dislikes: Fruit.
*Dislikes: Fruit.
* Toxic: Raw meat, cooked meat, just don't eat something that moved and made noises.
*Toxic: Raw meat, cooked meat, just don't eat something that moved and made noises.
 
'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Can eat clothing items, hats and jumpsuits for nutrition.
* If your wings haven't been crisped, you can flutter around once gravity goes out.
* If your wings haven't been crisped, you can flutter around once gravity goes out.
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Your eyes are extra sensitive to light. Welding needs both goggles plus a mask and flashbangs REALLY hurt, even with sunglasses on.
*Your eyes are extra sensitive to light. Welding needs both goggles plus a mask and flashbangs REALLY hurt, even with sunglasses on.
* Badly hurt by fly swatters. [10x damage]
* Badly hurt by fly swatters. [10x damage]
* Vulnerable to pest spray. [3x damage]
*Vulnerable to pest spray. [3x damage]
* Fire will burn your wings off, disabling its benefits.
*Fire will burn your wings off, disabling its benefits and making the moth sad.
* Not protected by Asimov laws.
*Nonsensical 'fluttering' speech tag.
* Nonsensical 'fluttering' speech tag.  
==={{anchor|Ethereals}}[[Ethereals]]===
[[File:Ethereal race.png]]


'''Where to find them:'''
Walking lightbulbs that are named after celestial bodies.
* Near a light bulb or [[Tesla_Engine|Tesla engine]].


==={{anchor|Ethereals}}[[Ethereals]]===
'''Gameplay'''
[[File:Light_Bulb.png|90px]]


Walking lightbulbs that are named after celestial bodies.
Die in one hit because you forgot to recharge. Steal all the station's power. Get harassed by moths.


'''Diet'''
'''Diet'''
* Likes: Snowflake Ethereal food (High-power energy bars, [[Food#Burgers|empowered burgers]]). Electricity, whether through [[Cyborg]] rechargers, electric shocks or indirectly through lightbulbs.
*Likes: Snowflake Ethereal food (High-power energy bars, [[Food#Burgers|empowered burgers]]). Electricity, whether through [[Cyborg]] rechargers, electric shocks or indirectly through lightbulbs.
 
'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* They're walking flashlights.
*They're walking flashlights.
* Even better when emagged.
*Enter a temporary '''''Disco-mode''''' when emagged.
* Deal burn damage instead of brute damage when punching things.
*Deal burn damage instead of brute damage when punching things.
* Slightly resistant to electricity.
*Slightly resistant to electricity (0.5 siemens coefficient).
 
*Can recharge apcs by using grab intent.
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* They're walking flashlights.
*They're walking flashlights.
* Can only regain nutrition by entering a cyborg recharger, by touching lightbulbs or through special Ethereal food.
*Can only regain nutrition by entering a cyborg recharger, by touching lightbulbs, using apcs on harm intent, using a battery, or through special Ethereal food.
* Vulnerable to brute damage.
*Slowly take toxin damage when out of charge.
* Not protected by Asimov laws.
*Take 1.25 to 2x brute damage depending on lack of charge.
 
'''Where to find them:'''
* At [[Robotics]] and [[Engineering]].
 
==={{anchor|IPC}}[[IPC|IPC]]===
==={{anchor|IPC}}[[IPC|IPC]]===
[[File:IPC.png]]
[[File:IPC.png]]
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'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Your aesthetic TV head capable of changing looks, but also makes you stand out.
*Aesthetic TV head capable of changing looks, you stand out.
* They can heal brute damage with a welder and burn with a cable coil.
*They can heal brute damage with a welder and burn with a cable coil.
* Move slightly faster
*Can be field revived with a welder and cable coils.
* Can be field revived with a cyborg reset board, welder and cable coils.
*They stand out due to their TV head.
* Immune to cold and do not need to breathe.
*They do not require a head to live due to their brain being located in their torso
* Cannot process any reagents.
*No need for eating.
* Flash proof eyes.
*Immune to cold and do not need to breathe.
* Can neglect things that are deadly to pesky organics, like disease, toxins, nutrition and atmosphere.
* Cannot process any reagents except special IPC reagent.
 
*Immune to most diseases.
*Bleed Oil (litterly just recoloured blood codewise)
*Bleed out 10 times slower than every other spiecies
*Immune to heart attacks
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Cannot perform CPR due to lack of breathing.
* Cannot perform CPR due to lack of breathing.
* Cannot be cloned or healed by medicine. You will be dragged into a sleeper, a cryopod and then into cloning before someone figures out why neither of these work. Hopefully they will drag you to robotics, and not to the morgue.
*Cannot be cloned, incompetent Roboticists will borg you instead of reviving you.
* Take almost 2x burn damage, capable of being critted in 4 welder hits, along with having a 1.3 brute modifier.
*Take almost 2x burn damage, capable of being critted in 4 welder hits, along with having a 1.3 brute modifier.
* Cannot process any reagents.
*You stand out without a helmet.
* EMPs will deal 20 - 60 brute damage and stun you for 10 - 20 seconds.
* Cannot process any reagents except special IPC reagents.
* EMPs will deal 20 - 60 brute damage and stun you for 10 - 20 seconds while dislocating random limbs (including your head).
*Need to stand still for a few seconds to heal with a cable coil or welder.
* Heal slowly unless someone else is healing them.
* Heal slowly unless someone else is healing them.
* An Asimov AI and its [[Cyborg|minions]] are almost always free to maim or kill you if you are seen harming a human.
*You will be killed by most conversion antags due to the difficulty of keeping you around.
* You will be killed by most conversion antags due to the difficulty of keeping you around.
*Revenants can EMP you and kill you.
* You can still take brain damage, and it is trickier to fix.
*Requires Oil for blood
* Revenants can EMP you and kill you.
==={{anchor|Apid}}[[Apids|Apid]]===
 
[[File:Apid.png|alt=|64x64px]]
'''Where to find them:'''
* Almost everywhere, such as [[Atmospherics]] or [[Robotics]].
 
==={{anchor|Apids}}[[Apids]]===
[[File:beequeen.gif]]
 
Although apids have been around for a long while, Nanotrasen have only recently been allowed to recruit them. This is mainly due to the fact that one of Nanotrasen's early bluespace experiments landed a flagship carrying many high ranking apid officials too close to a sun, getting them banned on apid systems. Nanotrasen's lawyers have undone the damage, and Nanotrasen is allowed to operate and recruit on apid worlds.
 
'''Gameplay'''


What sets apids aside from other races is their useful dash ability. It has both offensive and defensive capabilities, as dashing into someone will stun them for a short while.
Bee people! An exceedingly rare sight to see.  


'''Diet'''
'''Diet'''
* Likes: fruits, vegetables
*Likes fruits and vegetables
* Dislikes: meat, eggs, milk...
 
'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Excrete pheromones that make bees less aggressive towards them.
*Shockingly, bees like you.
* Able to leap small distances thanks to their wings.
*Improved vision in dark (barely noticeable).
* Buzz instead of speaking.
*Superior lungs require less oxygen. (8 kPa min, humans require 16 kPa.)
 
*Able to dash short distances using their wings which works very well with no gravity but needs an atmosphere.
*Can craft [[Guide to food and drinks#Honeycomb|honeycombs]] which contain 25 units of honey for 50 units of sugar.
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Strictly vegan diet.
*Takes 1.5x burn and toxin, and 1.25x stamina damage.
* Unable to wear capes.
*Passes out instantly in smoke, and after some time in the cold.
* Take increased burn damage.
*Takes 30x damage from flyswatters, 3x damage from pest-killer.
* Flyswatters will harm you.
==={{anchor|Oozeling}}[[Oozeling]]===
 
[[File:Rainbow_slime.gif]]
'''Where to find them:'''
* <s>Everywhere but command department.</s> Recent changes in NanoTrasen employment policies have allowed All races, human or not, to be any job they wish to take. Rejoice, non-humans!
 
==={{anchor|Squidpeople}}[[Squidpeople]]===
 
A very rare race, rarely ever appear and not much is known about them from most people
 
'''Gameplay'''


Not many people play squidpeople and most players dont even know what they do.
Slimes that have taken a humanoid form, these share a lot of the same biological traits that simple slimes do


'''Diet'''
* Likes: raw meat, strictly carnivorous
* Dislikes: pretty much everything else


'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Can eat raw food.
*Cannot ignite when exposed to flames
* Suction cups on your hands increase your grabbing ability.
*Anything that would deal toxin damage (for example, Plasma) will heal toxin damage instead.
* Suction cups on your feet make you very slip resistant. It takes more than water and soap to slip you.
*50% reduced burn damage from high heat, but not burn damage from other sources.
* Can speak their own squid language.
*Able to speak the slime language, and wild slimes do not see them as a food source.
* You can change the color of your skin. This may or may not have its uses.
*Able to regenerate their limbs.
 
*Has slime lungs, "Vacuole", which will regenerate blood (ooze) volume when breathing plasma, You still need oxygen though
*Has Slime Jelly as their blood, which can be extracted for use by chemists
*Has no food preferences despite their gluttonous nature, so no major mood buffs or debuffs from eating.
*Rapidly metabolize food when overfed, converting it into extra blood volume.
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* You are unable to wear shoes. You will have trouble walking on sharp objects.
*Lose limbs when "blood" volume gets too low, restoring some of it.
* Squidward jokes.
*Lose "blood" volume rapidly when exposed to water, water vapor, fire extinguishers, and showers.
 
*Lose "blood" volume rapidly and take toxin damage when processing chemicals which would heal toxin damage in other races.
'''Where to find them:'''
*Lose "blood" volume gradually when hungry, and rapidly when starving.
* <s>Crawling through vents</s> Contrary to popular belief, squidpeople cannot crawl through vents.
*300% increased burn damage from cold temperature exposure


=Human Mutants=
*
Over the course of a shift, you or someone you know may lose their humanity. These races are not born, but made.<br>  
= Human Mutants=
Over the course of a shift, you or someone you know may lose their humanity. These races are not born, but made.<br>
These players are less likely to be the targets of racism, as many may simply acknowledge their former humanity, but are none the less NOT human anymore.
These players are less likely to be the targets of racism, as many may simply acknowledge their former humanity, but are none the less NOT human anymore.
==={{anchor|Podman}}[[Podman|Podpeople]]===
==={{anchor|Podman}}[[Podman|Podpeople]]===
[[File:podpeople.png]]
[[File:podpeople.png]]
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'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Gradually heals and gains nutrition in well lit areas.
*Gradually heals and gains nutrition in well lit areas.
* Immune to plant-based hazards such as space vines and killer tomatoes.
*Immune to plant-based hazards such as space vines and killer tomatoes.
* Bees don't mind them.
* Bees don't mind them.
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Darkness drains nutrition.
*Darkness drains nutrition.
* If starving, takes damage over time.
*If starving, takes damage over time.
* Easily eaten by goats.
*Easily eaten by goats.
* Tendency to be overweight due to desire to stay in the light at all times.
*Tendency to be overweight due to desire to stay in the light at all times.
* Extra vulnerable to chemicals designed to kill plant life.
*Extra vulnerable to chemicals designed to kill plant life.
* Takes extra burn damage and heats up quickly.
*Takes extra burn damage and heats up quickly.
* Mutates if shot by a [[Research_items#Floral Somatoray|floral somatoray]] in mutation mode.
*Mutates if shot by a [[Research_items#Floral Somatoray|floral somatoray]] in mutation mode.
 
'''Where to find them:'''
* [[Hydroponics]].
 
==={{anchor|Flyperson}}[[Flyperson|Flypeople]]===
==={{anchor|Flyperson}}[[Flyperson|Flypeople]]===
[[File:flypeople.png]]
[[File:flypeople.png]]


Walking abominations of mishmatched DNA caused by teleporter malfunctions. Careful use and upgrading of the teleporter can assure those that dabble with it don't end up in this sorry state.<br>
Technically, a roundstart race now. But realistically you only see these during teleporter malfunctions. A truly sorry state to be in.  
Like the lizard races, there's absolutely nothing redeemable about existing like this, unless you just enjoy being a freak.


'''Gameplay'''
'''Gameplay'''
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* Likes: Gross things, such as vomit. Get your crewmates sick and never go hungry again!
* Likes: Gross things, such as vomit. Get your crewmates sick and never go hungry again!
* Dislikes: Anything with nutriment... the first time.
* Dislikes: Anything with nutriment... the first time.
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Buz-zz-zing lisp.
* Buz-zz-zing lisp.
* Grotesque appearance.
* Grotesque appearance.
* Badly hurt by pest spray [3x damage].
* Takes 30x damage from flyswatters, 3x damage from pest-killer.
* CRUSHED by fly swatters [30x damage].
* Slower than normal people
* Can't handle alcohol very well
* 1.4x burn and brute damage, because of course you can't have anything.
*0.7 speed modifier why would you play this.
==={{anchor|Felinids}}[[Felinids]]===
[[File:Catpeople.png]]


'''Where to find them:'''
Effectively human if not for their ears and tail.  
* Coming out of a [[teleporter]].


=={{anchor|Jelly and Slime Mutants}}Jelly and Slime Mutants==
'''Diet'''
 
*Similar to normal humans.
These races are created in Xenobiology by ingesting mutation toxin. <br>
*Dislikes: Vegetables, Sugar, COCO.
Further ingestion has a chance to mutate a slimeperson into a Stargazer or Luminescent.
'''Gameplay'''
 
==={{anchor|Jellypeople}}Jellypeople===
[[File:Brokenbottle.png]]


The proto-jelly race. Its subspecies all share the following traits:
At the start of the shift, put on clothes that look like they're from one of those Chinese cartoons you're always watching. <s>Have quality interactions with the crew</s> behave like a poorly-written female character created by a sweaty dude who's never actually spoken to a woman except for his mother (and a fast food cashier that one time.) <s>NYAAA at the crew</s> don't because that's cringe. Become an entertaining electrical conductor for silicons. <br> Metafriend every other catperson, every single round. Get lynched in the hallways by a mob while [[the authorities]] point and laugh from a distance. When in danger, [[Rules#Main Rules - read these if nothing else|get saved by backup suspiciously fast.]] Ahelp every transgression people do to you.


'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Anything that would deal toxin damage (for example, Plasma) will heal toxin damage instead.
* N/A
* Slimes will never attack them.
* Able to speak the slime language.
* Has slime jelly instead of blood, which is toxin if ingested by others.
* Take half burn damage from any source.
* Can grow limbs back using their slime jelly "blood".
* Has slime lungs, "vacuole", which will regenerate blood (jelly) volume when breathing plasma. Still needs oxygen though.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Lose limbs when "blood" volume goes too low, restoring some of it.
*Hit harder by flashbangs.
* Take toxin damage from chemicals that would normally cure it. This also drains large amounts of blood.
*Are below beast races because they abandoned their humanity, as opposed to never having it in the first place.
* Nonhuman to the AI.
=={{anchor|Jelly and Slime Mutants}}Oozeling and Slime Mutants ==
* Take triple damage from cold.
These races are created in Xenobiology by ingesting mutation toxin, and all three variants share the same basic characteristics of oozelings.<br>
 
Further ingestion has a chance to mutate a slimeperson into a Stargazer or Luminescent.
'''Where to find them:'''
==={{anchor|Slimepeople}}Slimepeople ===
* [[Guide_to_xenobiology#Green_Slime|Xenobiology]]. Also botany, if lucky with [[Guide_to_hydroponics#Strange_seeds|strange seeds]].  
[[File:slimepeople.png]]<br>
 
==={{anchor|Slimepeople}}Slimepeople===
[[File:slimepeople.png]]
 
Pretty much humans turned into slime.<br>
Like slimes, they can split into multiple bodies, while retaining the same mind.
Like slimes, they can split into multiple bodies, while retaining the same mind.
====Powers====
====Powers====
* Can split themselves to create spare bodies.
*Can split themselves to create spare bodies if they have enough blood volume.
** To split they need to acquire slime jelly; they generate it either by being well fed or by taking normally toxin-dealing chemicals (which heals them, doesn't damage them). Normal toxin healing chemicals will remove blood and cause toxin damage at a fast rate.
** Reaching 1100 volume will let them split once, and reset them to 600.
** Reaching 1100 jelly volume will let them split once, and reset them to 600.
**Just like oozelings, they can regenerate their "blood" by eating, breathing plasma or consuming things which would be toxic to other races.
** They can swap between bodies at will; dying in their current body will send them to another body if they have one.
** They can swap between bodies at will; dying in their current body will send them to another body if they have one.
'''Gameplay'''
Be the specialest snowflake in xenobiology. Hang out with your <s>only</s> slime friends. Swap between bodies. Inject people with your poisonous blood.
'''Where to find them:'''
'''Where to find them:'''
* [[Xenobiology]].
*[[Xenobiology]].
 
===Stargazers ===
===Stargazers===
[[File:jellypeople.png]]
[[File:jellypeople.png]]


Stargazers are the telepathic branch of jellypeople, able to project psychic messages and to link minds with participants.
Stargazers are the telepathic branch of oozelings, able to project psychic messages and to link minds with participants.
 
====Powers====
====Powers====
* Can privately and anonymously "send thoughts" to any target they see.
*Can privately and anonymously "send thoughts" to any target they see.
* Can form slimelinks with any living being.
* Can form slimelinks with any living being.
** To form a slimelink, they must aggressively grab their target, then use the Link Minds ability.
**To form a slimelink, they must aggressively grab their target, then use the Link Minds ability.
** Everyone in the slimelink will be able to communicate in it and hear each other.
**Everyone in the slimelink will be able to communicate in it and hear each other.
** Slimelink communication also works while unconscious or muted.
**Slimelink communication also works while unconscious or muted.
** Slimelinks are broken by death; killing the Stargazer supporting it, or changing its species will unlink everyone.
**Slimelinks are broken by death; killing the Stargazer supporting it, or changing its species will unlink everyone.
 
'''Where to find them:'''
'''Where to find them:'''
* [[Xenobiology]].
*[[Xenobiology]].
 
==={{anchor|Luminescents}}Luminescents===
==={{anchor|Luminescents}}Luminescents===
[[File:Brokenbottle.png]]
[[File:Brokenbottle.png]]
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'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Emit a faint glow.
*Emit a faint glow.
 
==== Powers====
====Powers====
*Can absorb slime cores to gain special abilities. (You can find the various effects [[Guide_to_xenobiology#Formulas|here]])
* Can absorb slime cores to gain special abilities. (You can find the various effects [[Guide_to_xenobiology#Formulas|here]])
**Each core has a minor and a major ability.
** Each core has a minor and a major ability.
**Activating them has a cooldown instead of using up the core. Cores can be ejected and reused.
** Activating them has a cooldown instead of using up the core. Cores can be ejected and reused.
**You can only have one core absorbed at once.
** You can only have one core absorbed at once.
 
'''Where to find them:'''
'''Where to find them:'''
* One of the possible mutations from [[Guide_to_chemistry#Slime_Mutation_Toxin|slime mutation toxin]], made with [[Guide_to_xenobiology#Green_Slime|green slime]] extracts.
*[[Xenobiology]].
 
=Exotic Races=
=Exotic Races=
These races have very few ways to come about, and often rely on very rare situations to exist at all.<br>
These races have very few ways to come about, and often rely on very rare situations to exist at all.<br>
Golems aside, you will almost never have to deal with them, but should be aware of them all the same for when the time comes.
Golems aside, you will almost never have to deal with them, but should be aware of them all the same for when the time comes.
==={{anchor|Golem}}[[Golem]]s===
==={{anchor|Golem}}[[Golem]]s===
[[File:agolem.png|96px]][[File:Iron_golem.png|96px]][[File:Silver_golem.png|96px]][[File:Gold_golem.png|96px]][[File:Plasma_golem.png|96px]][[File:Uranium_golem.png|96px]][[File:Diamond_golem.png|96px]]
[[File:agolem.png|96px]][[File:Iron_golem.png|96px]][[File:Silver_golem.png|96px]][[File:Gold_golem.png|96px]][[File:Plasma_golem.png|96px]][[File:Uranium_golem.png|96px]][[File:Diamond_golem.png|96px]]
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'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Spaceworthy, can't be dismembered and don't bleed out.
*Spaceworthy, can't be dismembered and don't bleed out.
* Immune to the effects of radiation and viruses.
*Immune to the effects of radiation and viruses.
* Most golems punch hard and are highly resistant to brute damage, with some exceptions.
*Most golems punch hard and are highly resistant to brute damage, with some exceptions.
* Have pocket-slots without wearing a jumpsuit.
*Have pocket-slots without wearing a jumpsuit.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Bound to will of creator unless freed.
*Bound to will of creator unless freed.
* Most are much slower than humans.
*Most are much slower than humans.
* Immune to injections and cryogenic drugs, can't give or receive CPR
*Immune to injections and cryogenic drugs, can't give or receive CPR
* Can't equip most clothing. Not really a drawback, since golems already have pockets.
*Can't equip most clothing. Not really a drawback, since golems already have pockets.
* The only guns they can use are Kinetic Accelerators with modified trigger guards.
*The only guns they can use are Kinetic Accelerators with modified trigger guards.
* Often prejudiced against and slain without mercy by [[Shitcurity|the station]] at first sign of trouble.
*Often prejudiced against and slain without mercy by [[Shitcurity|the station]] at first sign of trouble.
 
For mineral specific benefits and drawbacks, see: [[Golem#Types_of_Golems|Types of Golems]]
For mineral specific benefits and drawbacks, see: [[Golem#Types_of_Golems|Types of Golems]]


'''Where to find them:'''
'''Where to find them:'''
* [[Xenobiology]].
*[[Xenobiology]].
* [[Lavaland]].
*[[Lavaland]].
 
==={{anchor|Skeletons}}Skeletons===
[[File:skeletons.png]]
 
The skeleton within, unleashed! Somehow still alive, a skeleton is just a sack of stark white bones.<br>
Clattering spooks, due to their supernatural qualities they're almost always associated with wizards.<br>
Skeletons enjoy a wide selection of useful immunities, just don't expect the crew to ever enjoy looking at you ever again.
 
'''Benefits'''
* Don't need to breathe.
* Aren't bothered by extreme temperatures and pressure.
* Have no blood to lose.
* Are immune to the effects of radiation, as well as viruses.
* Immune to item embedding and chemical injections.
* Do not need to eat.
* Can attach limbs from the ground without surgery.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
* Loses limbs easily.
* Too spooky for most to tolerate.
* Immune to medical injections
 
'''Where to find them:'''
* Space pirate ships, with [[wizard|wizards]], on the station on Halloween.
 
==={{anchor|High-functioning Zombies}}High-functioning Zombies===
[[File:zombies.png]]
 
Unlike the zombies you find in movies, these high-functioning zombies don't crave your brains (despite what they might be compelled to say sometimes).<br>
It's perfectly possible to coexist with these zombies, though understanding their slurring speech might drive some to wish it wasn't.
 
'''Benefits'''
* Don't need to breathe.
* Can survive in extreme pressures.
* Immune to cold.
* Have no blood to lose.
* Are immune to the effects of radiation.
* Can attach limbs from the ground without surgery.
* Immune to [[Changeling]] transmutation stings.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
* Loses limbs easily.
* Hard to understand.
* Ugly.
* Tends to be confused with the infectious kind of zombie.
 
'''Where to find them:'''
* With [[wizard|wizards]], on the station on Halloween.
 
===={{anchor|Romerol Zombies}}Romerol Zombies====
===={{anchor|Romerol Zombies}}Romerol Zombies====
[[File:zombies.png]]
[[File:zombies.png]]
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They are aggressive by nature, and spread an infection when hitting other humanoids, causing them to turn into Romerol zombies on death.
They are aggressive by nature, and spread an infection when hitting other humanoids, causing them to turn into Romerol zombies on death.


They also won't stay dead as long as the infection is active and their head is intact: to stop them permanently, the body must be destroyed or beheaded, or the infection must be surgically removed.<br>  
They also won't stay dead as long as the infection is active and their head is intact: to stop them permanently, the body must be destroyed or beheaded, or the infection must be surgically removed.<br>
If this does not happen, the zombie will revive at full health after some time.
If this does not happen, the zombie will revive at full health after some time.


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* Same as regular zombies.
* Same as regular zombies.
* Strong claws that can even punch through airlocks.
* Strong claws that can even punch through airlocks.
* Revives after death unless decapitated or gibbed.
*Revives after death unless decapitated or gibbed.
* Quickly heals wounds.
*Quickly heals wounds.
* Can see in the dark.
*Can see in the dark.
* Turn other species into romerol zombies on death.
*Turn other species into romerol zombies on death.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Slow movement.
*Slow movement.
* Can only use claws to smash.
*Can only use claws to smash.
* (Rightfully) feared and hunted by crewmembers.
* (Rightfully) feared and hunted by crewmembers.
'''Where to find them:'''
*On the station, after traitors team up to buy [[Syndicate_Items#Romerol|Romerol]], get lucky with a [[Syndicate_Items#Syndicate_Surplus_Crate|surplus crate]] or a cunning virologist finds out how to make them.
==={{anchor|Androids}}Androids===
[[File:Androids.png|96px]]


Human-like robots, distant cousins of synths. While visually identical to a fully augmented human, it has some additional perks.
'''Benefits'''
*Does not need to breathe, immune to gases and viruses.
*Immunity to pressure, cold and heat, can't be set on fire.
*Does not bleed.
*Does not need to eat.
*Cannot be pierced by syringes or glass.
*Can repair brute damage with welding and burn damage by replacing wires.
'''Drawbacks'''
* Cannot heal brute and burn damage with conventional means.
*Paralyzed and heavily damaged by EMPs.
'''Where to find them:'''
'''Where to find them:'''
* On the station, after traitors team up to buy [[Syndicate_Items#Romerol|Romerol]] or get lucky with a [[Syndicate_Items#Syndicate_Surplus_Crate|surplus crate]].
*A technophile chapel
==={{anchor|Abductor}}[[Abductor]]s===
[[File:Abductor_base.png|96px]]
 
Alien beings sent here to probe the station's crew. They cannot speak normally, but instead use a special frequency tuned to their mothership: different abductor teams have separate channels. Abductors created in different ways share a common abductor channel instead, and cannot hear natural abductors.


'''Benefits'''
* Does not bleed.
*Does not need to breathe.
* Is immune to viruses.
*Can use abductor-specific equipment.
*Can see in the dark for short ranges.
*Can communicate without restrictions with fellow abductors.
'''Drawbacks'''
*Can't use guns, except the one they start with.
*Cannot be heard by non-abductors when speaking.
'''Where to find them:'''
*[[Abductor]] ships
[[Category:Guides]]
==Halloween Races==
These are races that are found as roundstart races during the days near Halloween but can sometimes, rarely be found otherwise
==={{anchor|Shadowpeople}}Shadowpeople===
==={{anchor|Shadowpeople}}Shadowpeople===
[[File:shadowpeople.png]]
[[File:shadowpeople.png]]
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'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Gradually heals in the dark.
*Gradually heals in the dark.
* Don't need to breathe.
*Don't need to breathe.
* Have no blood to lose.
*Have no blood to lose.
* Are immune to the effects of radiation.
*Are immune to the effects of radiation.
* Can see far in the dark.
*Can see far in the dark.
* Immune to viruses.
*Immune to viruses.
* Won't get attacked by ''Faithless'' mobs.  
*Won't get attacked by ''Faithless'' mobs.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Will perish in the light.
*Will perish in the light.
* Generally impossible to maintain a normal life on the station.
*Generally impossible to maintain a normal life on the station.
'''Where to find them'''
* on the station during halloween
* rarely in xenobio
==={{anchor|Skeletons}}Skeletons===
[[File:skeletons.png]]


'''Where to find them:'''
The skeleton within, unleashed! Somehow still alive, a skeleton is just a sack of stark white bones.<br>
* In the darkness. Also [[Xenobiology]].
Clattering spooks, due to their supernatural qualities they're almost always associated with wizards.<br>
 
Skeletons enjoy a wide selection of useful immunities, just don't expect the crew to ever enjoy looking at you ever again.
==={{anchor|Synths}}Synths===
[[File:Changeling.gif|96px]][[File:Synth_revealed.png|96px]]
 
Humanoid robots, disguised as an organic race. When damaged enough, their fake flesh will fall off and has to be repaired with synthflesh.


'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Immune to all chemicals but synthflesh.
*Don't need to breathe.
* Does not need to breathe.
*Aren't bothered by extreme temperatures and pressure.
* Immune to viruses.
* Have no blood to lose.
* Can't be dismembered.
*Are immune to the effects of radiation, as well as viruses.
* Does not need to eat.
*Immune to item embedding and chemical injections.
* Gains all the passive bonuses/immunities of the race they're disguised as, until the disguise falls.
*Do not need to eat.
 
*Can attach limbs from the ground without surgery.
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Usually valid. Expect the crew to attack you if you're revealed as synth.
*Loses limbs easily.
* Disguise falls if you take more than 25 damage.
*Too spooky for most to tolerate.
* Can only heal with synthflesh.
*Immune to medical injections
 
'''Where to find them:'''
'''Where to find them:'''
* Only if the <s>admins</s> gods spawn them.
* Space pirate ships, with [[wizard|wizards]], on the station on Halloween.
==={{anchor|High-functioning Zombies}}High-functioning Zombies===
[[File:zombies.png]]


===={{anchor|Military Synths}}Military Synths====
Unlike the zombies you find in movies, these high-functioning zombies don't crave your brains (despite what they might be compelled to say sometimes).<br>
 
It's perfectly possible to coexist with these zombies, though understanding their slurring speech might drive some to wish it wasn't.
A special type of synth. In addition to classic synths, it has:
* 25% natural armor against all damages.
* High punch damage, with 50% chance of stunning on hit.
* Need to take 50 damage instead of 25 for the disguise to fail.
 
==={{anchor|Androids}}Androids===
[[File:Androids.png|96px]]
 
Humanlike robots, distant cousins of synths. While visually identical to a fully augmented human, it has some additional perks.


'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Does not need to breathe, immune to gases and viruses.
*Don't need to breathe.
* Immunity to pressure, cold and heat, can't be set on fire.
*Can survive in extreme pressures.
* Does not bleed.
*Immune to cold.
* Does not need to eat.
*Have no blood to lose.
* Cannot be pierced by syringes or glass.
*Are immune to the effects of radiation.
* Can repair brute damage with welding and burn damage by replacing wires.
* Can attach limbs from the ground without surgery.
 
*Immune to [[Changeling]] transmutation stings.
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Cannot heal brute and burn damage with conventional means.
*Loses limbs easily.
* Paralyzed and heavily damaged by EMPs.
*Hard to understand.
*Ugly.
*Tends to be confused with the infectious kind of zombie.
'''Where to find them:'''
*With [[wizard|wizards]], on the station on Halloween.


'''Where to find them:'''
* Robotics


==={{anchor|Abductor}}[[Abductor]]s===
==={{anchor|Vampires}}Vampires===
[[File:Abductor_base.png|96px]]
[[File:bat.gif]]


Alien beings sent here to probe the station's crew. They cannot speak normally, but instead use a special frequency tuned to their mothership: different abductor teams have separate channels. Abductors created in different ways share a common abductor channel instead, and cannot hear natural abductors.
that goth from the club wasn't as clean as she said and now you are eternally cursed with vampirism, atleast it has its upsides


'''Benefits'''
'''Benefits'''
* Does not bleed.
* You can turn into a bat
* Does not need to breathe.
* That bat can crawl into vents
* Is immune to viruses.
* You can suck peoples blood
* Can use abductor-specific equipment.
* You heal while inside of a coffin
* Can see in the dark for short ranges.
* Can communicate without restrictions with fellow abductors.
 
'''Drawbacks'''
'''Drawbacks'''
* Can't use guns, except the one they start with.
* You constantly need blood
* Cannot be heard by non-abductors when speaking.
* If you run out of blood you turn into dust
 
* You will always be pale
'''Where to find them:'''
* You will burst into flames if you enter the chapel
* [[Abductor]] ships
* If the chaplain picks the whip nullrod, it will deal double damage to you
 
*
[[Category:Guides]]

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During your time on station you may find yourself face to face (or face to mirror) with the not quite human. Be they aliens, mutated humans, or self aware constructs you're expected to try and coexist on this deathtrap
Learning their quirks can be key to knowing how to keep them amicable in times of peace, and easy to put down in times of strife.

Roundstart Races

On Beestation, these are the races allowed to be chosen at round start. Because they are freely available, you should expect to deal with them nearly every round.

Humans

On the station humans enjoy a degree of superiority over other races, everyone you meet in a position of power will generally be a human.
Formerly, the AI would apply the protections of its laws ONLY to humans, nowadays however the AI's law protect "Crew" instead of humans.

Gameplay

Behave like the dominant species you are. Beat skulls in with a toolbox and remind everyone that you are essentially a bald ape. Get leg-dropped by a wrestler and watch as your leg actually falls off.
Set up industrial-sized bugzappers in the main hall to deal with the pests.

Diet

  • Likes: Fried food and junkfood, often combined into a heavenly form known as fast food.
  • Dislikes: Raw food.

Benefits

  • Strength in numbers.

Drawbacks

  • None at all.

Lizardpeople

Second class citizens, lizards are generally relegated to lower level work.
Within a department a lizard staff member may enjoy anywhere from almost equal standing to obvious racism and disrespect, depending on their coworkers. They enjoy no advantages beyond their striking appearance.
Their appearance and naming conventions are loosely derived from the Argonians, of Skyrim.

Gameplay

Name yourself Does-The-Gimmick. Set all your accessory slots and become an unrecognizable blob of pixels.
Make it hard to understand a word you say by hissing frequently. Get discriminated against for being a snowflake race.

Diet

  • Likes: Meat and disgusting things like small creatures that run around on four legs famous for disease
  • Dislikes: Grain and dairy, what kind of creature would hate pizza or cake?!

Benefits

  • Memorable appearance.
  • Solidarity with lizards staffmates.
  • Lizardpeople take one third less heat damage.
  • Lizard tails and hides can be used to craft sought after items like lizard wine, the Liz O' Nine Tails and lizard cloche hats.

Drawbacks

  • Likely target of racism.
  • Noticeable lisssp.
  • 50% more cold damage.
  • Your lizard tail and hide can be used to craft sought-after items.

Plasmaman

A recently discovered race that inhabits orbital bodies with high concentrations of Plasma.
Plasmamen have a hard time living on oxygen based space stations as they breathe pure Plasma as their air supply, thus they wear special environmental suits to protect them.
They have almost no advantages mechanics wise, and must rely on their skill and respect to get by.


Gameplay

Light the entirety of the station on fire. Be immune to cold environments, die in seconds to hot ones. Claim that you're a space beast that's come to kill everything, ever.

Diet

  • Likes: Vegetables.
  • Dislikes: Fruit, only the flesh is weak to scurvy.

Benefits

  • Bang-proof and space-proof helmet with welding screen.
  • Immune to cold, (most) viruses, and radiation.
  • Can't bleed.
  • Does not need to eat.
  • Internals last very long and belt tanks at a standard pressure of 1013kPa last about 1.5 hours.

Drawbacks

  • They rely on a constant source of Plasma air to survive.
  • If exposed to Oxygen their body will catch on fire (unless in stasis).
  • 150% damage from brute, heat and fire.
  • Takes longer for body temperature to stabilize.
  • They are stuck inside an environment suit. [Replaceable by Hardsuit, EVA spacesuit or ghetto envirosuit you can craft]
  • Have to take off helmet and eat a few bites very quickly then extinguish in order to eat something.
  • No easy ability to hide their identity.
  • Can be cloned, but incompetent medical staff will always fuck it up.
  • Cannot be defibrillated, as they lack a heart.

Mothpeople

White-faced insect people with wings and antannae. Be the Mary Sue you were always meant to be with a shitload of color 'themes' to choose from.

Gameplay

Get everything unique about you as a species removed by deranged people, but manage to sneak past a free infinite jetpack that never activates when you need it to. Turn into toothpaste when you hack a door wrong.
Be slightly more tolerated by humans than other alien species.

Diet

  • Likes: Vegetables, Dairy & Clothes.
  • Dislikes: Fruit.
  • Toxic: Raw meat, cooked meat, just don't eat something that moved and made noises.

Benefits

  • If your wings haven't been crisped, you can flutter around once gravity goes out.

Drawbacks

  • Your eyes are extra sensitive to light. Welding needs both goggles plus a mask and flashbangs REALLY hurt, even with sunglasses on.
  • Badly hurt by fly swatters. [10x damage]
  • Vulnerable to pest spray. [3x damage]
  • Fire will burn your wings off, disabling its benefits and making the moth sad.
  • Nonsensical 'fluttering' speech tag.

Ethereals

Walking lightbulbs that are named after celestial bodies.

Gameplay

Die in one hit because you forgot to recharge. Steal all the station's power. Get harassed by moths.

Diet

  • Likes: Snowflake Ethereal food (High-power energy bars, empowered burgers). Electricity, whether through Cyborg rechargers, electric shocks or indirectly through lightbulbs.

Benefits

  • They're walking flashlights.
  • Enter a temporary Disco-mode when emagged.
  • Deal burn damage instead of brute damage when punching things.
  • Slightly resistant to electricity (0.5 siemens coefficient).
  • Can recharge apcs by using grab intent.

Drawbacks

  • They're walking flashlights.
  • Can only regain nutrition by entering a cyborg recharger, by touching lightbulbs, using apcs on harm intent, using a battery, or through special Ethereal food.
  • Slowly take toxin damage when out of charge.
  • Take 1.25 to 2x brute damage depending on lack of charge.

IPC

Integrated positronic chassis, also known as TV heads.

Benefits

  • Aesthetic TV head capable of changing looks, you stand out.
  • They can heal brute damage with a welder and burn with a cable coil.
  • Can be field revived with a welder and cable coils.
  • They stand out due to their TV head.
  • They do not require a head to live due to their brain being located in their torso
  • No need for eating.
  • Immune to cold and do not need to breathe.
  • Cannot process any reagents except special IPC reagent.
  • Immune to most diseases.
  • Bleed Oil (litterly just recoloured blood codewise)
  • Bleed out 10 times slower than every other spiecies
  • Immune to heart attacks

Drawbacks

  • Cannot perform CPR due to lack of breathing.
  • Cannot be cloned, incompetent Roboticists will borg you instead of reviving you.
  • Take almost 2x burn damage, capable of being critted in 4 welder hits, along with having a 1.3 brute modifier.
  • You stand out without a helmet.
  • Cannot process any reagents except special IPC reagents.
  • EMPs will deal 20 - 60 brute damage and stun you for 10 - 20 seconds while dislocating random limbs (including your head).
  • Need to stand still for a few seconds to heal with a cable coil or welder.
  • Heal slowly unless someone else is healing them.
  • You will be killed by most conversion antags due to the difficulty of keeping you around.
  • Revenants can EMP you and kill you.
  • Requires Oil for blood

Apid

Bee people! An exceedingly rare sight to see.

Diet

  • Likes fruits and vegetables

Benefits

  • Shockingly, bees like you.
  • Improved vision in dark (barely noticeable).
  • Superior lungs require less oxygen. (8 kPa min, humans require 16 kPa.)
  • Able to dash short distances using their wings which works very well with no gravity but needs an atmosphere.
  • Can craft honeycombs which contain 25 units of honey for 50 units of sugar.

Drawbacks

  • Takes 1.5x burn and toxin, and 1.25x stamina damage.
  • Passes out instantly in smoke, and after some time in the cold.
  • Takes 30x damage from flyswatters, 3x damage from pest-killer.

Oozeling

Slimes that have taken a humanoid form, these share a lot of the same biological traits that simple slimes do


Benefits

  • Cannot ignite when exposed to flames
  • Anything that would deal toxin damage (for example, Plasma) will heal toxin damage instead.
  • 50% reduced burn damage from high heat, but not burn damage from other sources.
  • Able to speak the slime language, and wild slimes do not see them as a food source.
  • Able to regenerate their limbs.
  • Has slime lungs, "Vacuole", which will regenerate blood (ooze) volume when breathing plasma, You still need oxygen though
  • Has Slime Jelly as their blood, which can be extracted for use by chemists
  • Has no food preferences despite their gluttonous nature, so no major mood buffs or debuffs from eating.
  • Rapidly metabolize food when overfed, converting it into extra blood volume.

Drawbacks

  • Lose limbs when "blood" volume gets too low, restoring some of it.
  • Lose "blood" volume rapidly when exposed to water, water vapor, fire extinguishers, and showers.
  • Lose "blood" volume rapidly and take toxin damage when processing chemicals which would heal toxin damage in other races.
  • Lose "blood" volume gradually when hungry, and rapidly when starving.
  • 300% increased burn damage from cold temperature exposure

Human Mutants

Over the course of a shift, you or someone you know may lose their humanity. These races are not born, but made.
These players are less likely to be the targets of racism, as many may simply acknowledge their former humanity, but are none the less NOT human anymore.

Podpeople

Human blood, resurrected through a plant. Podpeople are rare to see, often only making an appearance if the cloner has been destroyed or the power is out for an extended period of time. They thrive in light and can't survive darkness for too long.

Gameplay

End up as mister potatohead after Genetics gets blown up and the Botanist is not stoned enough to forget he can clone too, but too stoned to do a good job. Forget that you photosynthesise and grow obese in the light. Start vegetating with relative ease.
Remember that you're basically a walking matchstick well after you marched into a plasma fire.

Benefits

  • Gradually heals and gains nutrition in well lit areas.
  • Immune to plant-based hazards such as space vines and killer tomatoes.
  • Bees don't mind them.

Drawbacks

  • Darkness drains nutrition.
  • If starving, takes damage over time.
  • Easily eaten by goats.
  • Tendency to be overweight due to desire to stay in the light at all times.
  • Extra vulnerable to chemicals designed to kill plant life.
  • Takes extra burn damage and heats up quickly.
  • Mutates if shot by a floral somatoray in mutation mode.

Flypeople

Technically, a roundstart race now. But realistically you only see these during teleporter malfunctions. A truly sorry state to be in.

Gameplay

Annoy the chef for his cheese, vomit on his food and kill Pete because you need barf fuel muh self defense. Start getting voices in your head when you read the bee movie script over the radio.
Get lynched for attacking the botanist using pest spray, and get gibbed by the chef for 'no reason'.

Diet

  • Likes: Gross things, such as vomit. Get your crewmates sick and never go hungry again!
  • Dislikes: Anything with nutriment... the first time.

Drawbacks

  • Buz-zz-zing lisp.
  • Grotesque appearance.
  • Takes 30x damage from flyswatters, 3x damage from pest-killer.
  • Slower than normal people
  • Can't handle alcohol very well
  • 1.4x burn and brute damage, because of course you can't have anything.
  • 0.7 speed modifier why would you play this.

Felinids

Effectively human if not for their ears and tail.

Diet

  • Similar to normal humans.
  • Dislikes: Vegetables, Sugar, COCO.

Gameplay

At the start of the shift, put on clothes that look like they're from one of those Chinese cartoons you're always watching. Have quality interactions with the crew behave like a poorly-written female character created by a sweaty dude who's never actually spoken to a woman except for his mother (and a fast food cashier that one time.) NYAAA at the crew don't because that's cringe. Become an entertaining electrical conductor for silicons.
Metafriend every other catperson, every single round. Get lynched in the hallways by a mob while the authorities point and laugh from a distance. When in danger, get saved by backup suspiciously fast. Ahelp every transgression people do to you.

Benefits

  • N/A

Drawbacks

  • Hit harder by flashbangs.
  • Are below beast races because they abandoned their humanity, as opposed to never having it in the first place.

Oozeling and Slime Mutants

These races are created in Xenobiology by ingesting mutation toxin, and all three variants share the same basic characteristics of oozelings.
Further ingestion has a chance to mutate a slimeperson into a Stargazer or Luminescent.

Slimepeople


Like slimes, they can split into multiple bodies, while retaining the same mind.

Powers

  • Can split themselves to create spare bodies if they have enough blood volume.
    • Reaching 1100 volume will let them split once, and reset them to 600.
    • Just like oozelings, they can regenerate their "blood" by eating, breathing plasma or consuming things which would be toxic to other races.
    • They can swap between bodies at will; dying in their current body will send them to another body if they have one.

Where to find them:

Stargazers

Stargazers are the telepathic branch of oozelings, able to project psychic messages and to link minds with participants.

Powers

  • Can privately and anonymously "send thoughts" to any target they see.
  • Can form slimelinks with any living being.
    • To form a slimelink, they must aggressively grab their target, then use the Link Minds ability.
    • Everyone in the slimelink will be able to communicate in it and hear each other.
    • Slimelink communication also works while unconscious or muted.
    • Slimelinks are broken by death; killing the Stargazer supporting it, or changing its species will unlink everyone.

Where to find them:

Luminescents

Luminescents are versatile; they gain powers by consuming cores and activating them with their peculiar biology.

Benefits

  • Emit a faint glow.

Powers

  • Can absorb slime cores to gain special abilities. (You can find the various effects here)
    • Each core has a minor and a major ability.
    • Activating them has a cooldown instead of using up the core. Cores can be ejected and reused.
    • You can only have one core absorbed at once.

Where to find them:

Exotic Races

These races have very few ways to come about, and often rely on very rare situations to exist at all.
Golems aside, you will almost never have to deal with them, but should be aware of them all the same for when the time comes.

Golems

Lumbering people of shining stone, golems are born into the servitude of their creators. While some will immediately gift these golems with freedom others will keep them close as assistants, bodyguards, or attack dogs. Golems do not have a will of their own unless granted one by their creator, and are not directly responsible for their actions if commanded. Free golems found on Lavaland function equivalently to their station-born counterparts; however, they are not compelled to serve anyone.

Golems have unique benefits and drawbacks, depending on the type of mineral they're made of.

Gameplay

Act like dumb ogre, smash the fleshy idiot humies and trigger gods. Escalate conflicts to deadchat with your ogre fists. Dish out justice with your ogre squad.
Kill people with your flashy radiation, and get banned for card golem counting.

Benefits

  • Spaceworthy, can't be dismembered and don't bleed out.
  • Immune to the effects of radiation and viruses.
  • Most golems punch hard and are highly resistant to brute damage, with some exceptions.
  • Have pocket-slots without wearing a jumpsuit.

Drawbacks

  • Bound to will of creator unless freed.
  • Most are much slower than humans.
  • Immune to injections and cryogenic drugs, can't give or receive CPR
  • Can't equip most clothing. Not really a drawback, since golems already have pockets.
  • The only guns they can use are Kinetic Accelerators with modified trigger guards.
  • Often prejudiced against and slain without mercy by the station at first sign of trouble.

For mineral specific benefits and drawbacks, see: Types of Golems

Where to find them:

Romerol Zombies

Rotted remains of former humans, brought way less back to life. Unlike the zombies you find in Xenobiology, Romerol zombies aren't just a human mutation.
They are aggressive by nature, and spread an infection when hitting other humanoids, causing them to turn into Romerol zombies on death.

They also won't stay dead as long as the infection is active and their head is intact: to stop them permanently, the body must be destroyed or beheaded, or the infection must be surgically removed.
If this does not happen, the zombie will revive at full health after some time.

The infection is concentrated in a tumor located in the brain. Should this tumor be removed surgically, the body will revert to a normal corpse, which can then be cloned.

Benefits

  • Same as regular zombies.
  • Strong claws that can even punch through airlocks.
  • Revives after death unless decapitated or gibbed.
  • Quickly heals wounds.
  • Can see in the dark.
  • Turn other species into romerol zombies on death.

Drawbacks

  • Slow movement.
  • Can only use claws to smash.
  • (Rightfully) feared and hunted by crewmembers.

Where to find them:

  • On the station, after traitors team up to buy Romerol, get lucky with a surplus crate or a cunning virologist finds out how to make them.

Androids

Human-like robots, distant cousins of synths. While visually identical to a fully augmented human, it has some additional perks.

Benefits

  • Does not need to breathe, immune to gases and viruses.
  • Immunity to pressure, cold and heat, can't be set on fire.
  • Does not bleed.
  • Does not need to eat.
  • Cannot be pierced by syringes or glass.
  • Can repair brute damage with welding and burn damage by replacing wires.

Drawbacks

  • Cannot heal brute and burn damage with conventional means.
  • Paralyzed and heavily damaged by EMPs.

Where to find them:

  • A technophile chapel

Abductors

Alien beings sent here to probe the station's crew. They cannot speak normally, but instead use a special frequency tuned to their mothership: different abductor teams have separate channels. Abductors created in different ways share a common abductor channel instead, and cannot hear natural abductors.

Benefits

  • Does not bleed.
  • Does not need to breathe.
  • Is immune to viruses.
  • Can use abductor-specific equipment.
  • Can see in the dark for short ranges.
  • Can communicate without restrictions with fellow abductors.

Drawbacks

  • Can't use guns, except the one they start with.
  • Cannot be heard by non-abductors when speaking.

Where to find them:

Halloween Races

These are races that are found as roundstart races during the days near Halloween but can sometimes, rarely be found otherwise

Shadowpeople

Cursed beings of darkness, shadows that cannot exist for long in the light. They skulk in darkened maintenance corridors or in workplaces with intentionally destroyed lighting. They are not intrinsically evil, but still invoke an understandable level of mistrust in pretty much everyone.

They share many of the passive effects of Shadowlings, but none of their innate spells or abilities. They are far less a threat.

Benefits

  • Gradually heals in the dark.
  • Don't need to breathe.
  • Have no blood to lose.
  • Are immune to the effects of radiation.
  • Can see far in the dark.
  • Immune to viruses.
  • Won't get attacked by Faithless mobs.

Drawbacks

  • Will perish in the light.
  • Generally impossible to maintain a normal life on the station.

Where to find them

  • on the station during halloween
  • rarely in xenobio

Skeletons

The skeleton within, unleashed! Somehow still alive, a skeleton is just a sack of stark white bones.
Clattering spooks, due to their supernatural qualities they're almost always associated with wizards.
Skeletons enjoy a wide selection of useful immunities, just don't expect the crew to ever enjoy looking at you ever again.

Benefits

  • Don't need to breathe.
  • Aren't bothered by extreme temperatures and pressure.
  • Have no blood to lose.
  • Are immune to the effects of radiation, as well as viruses.
  • Immune to item embedding and chemical injections.
  • Do not need to eat.
  • Can attach limbs from the ground without surgery.

Drawbacks

  • Loses limbs easily.
  • Too spooky for most to tolerate.
  • Immune to medical injections

Where to find them:

  • Space pirate ships, with wizards, on the station on Halloween.

High-functioning Zombies

Unlike the zombies you find in movies, these high-functioning zombies don't crave your brains (despite what they might be compelled to say sometimes).
It's perfectly possible to coexist with these zombies, though understanding their slurring speech might drive some to wish it wasn't.

Benefits

  • Don't need to breathe.
  • Can survive in extreme pressures.
  • Immune to cold.
  • Have no blood to lose.
  • Are immune to the effects of radiation.
  • Can attach limbs from the ground without surgery.
  • Immune to Changeling transmutation stings.

Drawbacks

  • Loses limbs easily.
  • Hard to understand.
  • Ugly.
  • Tends to be confused with the infectious kind of zombie.

Where to find them:

  • With wizards, on the station on Halloween.


Vampires

that goth from the club wasn't as clean as she said and now you are eternally cursed with vampirism, atleast it has its upsides

Benefits

  • You can turn into a bat
  • That bat can crawl into vents
  • You can suck peoples blood
  • You heal while inside of a coffin

Drawbacks

  • You constantly need blood
  • If you run out of blood you turn into dust
  • You will always be pale
  • You will burst into flames if you enter the chapel
  • If the chaplain picks the whip nullrod, it will deal double damage to you